Bureaucracy Meets the Environment: Elite Perceptions in Six Chinese Cities The author would like to thank the Research Center for Contemporary China at Peking University for the collaborative work on this project. The author would also like to thank Harry Harding and John Francis for their comments, and Xiahong Feng and Eric Posmentier for their invaluable technical assistance.
Tong, Yanqi
Журнал:
The China Quarterly
Дата:
2007
Аннотация:
A survey of local government officials and enterprise managers in six Chinese cities demonstrates relatively high environmental awareness. However, this awareness remains primarily an abstraction and does not always shape specific policy preferences. This article shows that the development-driven model works well overall, indicating the reluctance of policy makers to implement environmental protection policies at the cost of sacrificing the rate of economic growth. The pollution-driven model applies only to more developed areas, in which elites in more polluted cities are more concerned about environmental protection than those in less polluted cities. A non-linear model that takes into account the interaction between pollution and development works the best in explaining elitesʼ policy preferences. It suggests that pollution becomes a significant factor affecting policy preferences only when a certain development level is reached.
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